Safety-car



J. W. KING; SAFETY GAR.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB IV. KING, OF BOIVLING GREEN, MISSOURI.

SAFETY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,678, dated April 1,1890.

Application filed February 24, 1890. Serial No, 341,531. (No model.)

To (0% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB IV. KING, of Bowling Green, in the county ofPike and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Safety-Oar,of which the following is a specification, reference being had to theannexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is ahorizontal section taken on line x 50 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a verticaltransverse section of a car to which my improvement has been applied,and Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of one of the cutters.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

The object of my invention is to construct a car with a safetybullet-proof compartment, which will protect the inmate from injury bybullets fired from without, and which will receive and return thebullets toward the assailant.

My invention consists in a bulletproof compartment arranged in one endof the car and adapted to fill the end of the car, the compartment beingprovided with a convex front having vertical flutes furnished withknife-edges orcutters between the contiguous flutes adapted to receiveand cut the bullets, the said compartment being provided with loop-holesbetween the flutes through which the inmate may fire.

The car A to which my improvement is applied is of the usualconstruction. In one end of the car is arranged a compartment 13, formedof the iron walls a a a which adjoin the end and side walls of the car.The front wall 0 of the compartment,which is outwardly convex, is formedof a number of curved plates Z) Z) l), which are outwardly concave.

The plates 1) at the center of the front wall C are hinged to theadjoining plates b, forming doors Which may be opened to admit a personto the compartment. At the juncture of the plates are secured knives c,which serve to split any bullets which may strike upon the plates 1) b.Loop-holes (Z are formed at a suitable height between the plates toenable the inmate of the compartment to shoot his assailant. The convexsurfaces presented by the inner sides of the plates 1) 1) form guidesfor directing the bullets from within to the port-holes, so that the aimof the inmate may be more accurate than the aim of the assailant withoutthe compartment. The bullets of the assailant upon striking the concavesurfaces of the plates 1) are deflected so as to return toward him.

My improved car is designed for use in countries infested withtrain-robbers.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patente- 1. The combination, with a car, of a compartmentprovided with a convex wall formed of concavo-convex plates,substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a wall formed of concavo-convex plates, ofknives interposed between the plates at their juncture, substantially asdescribed.

3. In a safety-car, a wall formed of concavo-convex plates and providedwith loopholes (Z, substantially as specified.

JACOB W. KING.

\Vitnesses: W. B. MoALrsTER, R. L. POLLARD.

